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SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background
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Yes adversity can negatively impact grades and learning but that doesn't mean the student should be admitted over someone with better grades who happened to have the good fortune of living in affluent circumstances. The poor person with the poorer grades will most likely be far behind their peers academically and the poor person will struggle to keep up with their more privileged peers at elite schools. Yes it is unfair but so is putting students who are not academically prepared into elite schools where standards are higher. What ends up happening is the poor person drops out because it will take years to catch up academically and university is not the place for students reading at grade 8 level no matter if they are poor and black. Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities [ link to youtu.be (secure)] Tom Sowell used to rail on that issue. It makes no sense to put some kid who would do just fine at UC-Santa Cruz in at Stanford as an affirmative action student, just to ease Stanford's admissions board's troubled soul. You're setting that kid up to fail and it's not fair to him or the the kid who should have gotten in to Stanford in his place. This is why they create Minorty/Gender Studies programs, to make it easier to bury what would otherwise be total failure of the affirmative action system. Very true and hopefully Trump puts a stop to this nonsense for everyone's sake.
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